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  • For'ard, wherever their tasks left them, the Raiatea sailors sank down to sleep on deck.

    THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

  • For'ard she's as bare as a bone, as any decent ship ought to be, and yet look at 'em, rolling hog fat.

    CHAPTER XLIII 2010

  • For'ard, leavened with a ten per cent, of degenerate blonds, the remaining ninety per cent, of the slaves that toil for us are brunettes.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • For'ard, on the Valetta, were several of Grief's own Raiatea sailors.

    THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

  • For'ard, as the boat's head paid off, we set a patch of sail about the size of a flour-sack.

    SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

  • For'ard, rifle in hand, among the Raiatean sailors, stood a desperado whom Mauriri announced was Raoul's brother.

    THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

  • For'ard of the conning-tower three men were crouched around the deck-gun which, as far as the bo'sun could judge at that distance, was pointed directly at them.

    San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

  • For'ard of that, as far as they are concerned, it will be pitch dark.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • "For'ard, there!" yelled Poole from beside the binnacle.

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

  • 'For'ard,' Ping Wang answered, and as he spoke the donkey-engine started panting and puffing, and the part of the net to which the Chinaman had pointed was now raised high above the gunwale.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

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